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Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-31
Court Notes.

The Superior court, criminal side, comes
in this morning for the purpose of calling
bonds and closing up the business of the
term.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-31
rnEcoURr RECORD.

CITY Court - Criminal Side Judges
Deming and Pickett.
Frederick o. Lsavenworth, breach of the
peace, So; Thomas McGuinness, cruelty to
animals, $25; Patrick Geometry, breach of
the peace, $50; Herbert Kane, theft, nolled !;
erick Griffng, neglected child sent to County
Home.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-31
Gra1re1ers' Guide.
NEW HAVEN STEAMBOAT co.

NVSW NOfH-FAFC Tnc3mAv
Ing berth-Excursion Tickets $3.50.
NewHaven IL o'clock pm, Sunday excepted Stats
rooms sold at Peck Bishops, and at K1ocks Drug
leaves New Haven at 1915 a. m. SUNDAYS excepted.
From New York-The CONTINENTAL Leaves
Peck Slip at p. M, and the ELM CITY at n
night. - VIVA Ai0
Sunday Boat for NJ ork-Steamer NEW HAVEN
az l0:30 p m Staterooms sold al the Elliott House
free stage from Ins. Building al 9p. m Tickets
SOLD and baggage checked thro to Philadephia
(Via both routes), Baltimore ano Washington
JAMES IT WARn Aoan+
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-31
REDUCTION IN RATES.
ALLAN ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS

.MfIFsh RoyaI Mail Steamships sail every W eek
azAaziza from Glasgow to Boston via Londonderry
The only direct route from Scotland and North Of
Ireland to the New England States Intermediates
NO steerage, SD. Fortnightly sailings between
Portland and Liverpool. via Halifax and London
derry. Cabin, $50 to 3d. Intermediate $50; steer
age, SIS Passengers leave Boston $50 a. m train
day OF sailing. Apply to Fl. & A. ALLAN, Agents.
Boston; or to BUNNELL & SCRANTON, 732 and
734 Chapel ST. A
de2eod3m
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-31
A LIQUOR DEALER FINED

Richard Barrett, proprietor of the liquor
saloon at 253 Hamilton street, was fined by
Judge Demipg on Saturday $50 for selling
liquor the previous Sunday. Officers Den
nehy and Meigs testified against Barrett. The
case was appealed.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-31
WILL DRIVE FATTER HORSES HEREAFTER
Thomas Mc4uinness WAS fined SOB in the


City court Saturday morning. He drives
one of Cody's brick teams, and was fined for
cruelty to them. They were reported in a
very bad condition.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-31
FAIR HAVEN.


The Usual Budget of News That Fair
Haven People VIII Find Interest
ing.
The Young Peoples Society of Christian
Endeavor connected with the Second Con-
gregational church held a temperance meet
ing last night that was quite largely attended.
William G.. Def. Dickinson and others made
addresses that were listened to with much
pleasure. The Y. P. S. 9. E. is in a most
hourishing condition at present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Curtis rejoice in the
birth of daughter.
Teams composed of members of the st.
Aleysius and st. Ign atius Temperance socie-
ties played very exciting game of polo at
the Quinnipiac rink Saturday night. The
players were:
st. Aloysius Position st. Ignatius
E. Nagel Goal j. F. Sullivan
j. Brennan Center ]. Tierney
BELLY Belly Bush Rush ], J; Is s1 Pdrtep
The score was to in favor of the st.
Aloysius. The features of the game were
the goal tending of Messrs. Sullivan and Ma
gel. The former had "a stops, while the lat
ters is credited with A. James Donnelly, of
last years Bridgeport base ball team, was
the referee.
that more police protection is to be given the
outskirts of the city.
The rain of Saturday damaged Fair Haven
cellars and streets about the usual amount.
Mr. J. B. Rowe, who has sold out his jew
cry business, can still be found at his old
stand for few weeks.
The late Mrs. Magnus N. Bush had her
life insured in the Hartford Annuity COM
pany for 50, 900.
Mrs. Emily Stiles, of Southwick, Mass,
and her daughter, have been visiting Fl. W.
Loomi, of Prospect street, for number of
days past.
Charles H. Davis, of Hawleyvills, was in
town over Sunday.
A. DeMatty is vice president of the COM.
mittee of arrangements for the italian ball
that is to be given February %.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-31
New Haven & MEDITERRANEAN m

Parlor cars on trains leaving New Haven at 11:O4
am ana 4:OO p M Returning at $50 q M and
4:05 PM ~ ~
EDWARD A. RAY, G. T. A.
new maven and Derby Railroad.
Irsin arrangement commencing June IA, 1886.
LEAVE NEW HAVEN
At7:00 and 1859 a. m. 1:2o. 800, 5:45. 7:o5 D. m
Saturdays at HOO o. m r "
LEAVE ANSONIA
6:35 9:95 and 11:40 a. n, 100 $50 and AS M
Connectlons are made at Ansonia with passenger
Trains OF the Naugatuck railroad and at New Haven
With the principal trains Of other roads centerine
tnS ere IT,, e: 3. QUINTARD, Sup't.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-31

Naugatuck Railroad.
COMMENCING DEC. Goth, 1886, trains leave
Rev Msw aayen via H. & D. R. R., connecting With
700 a. m.-Connecting at Ansonia with passenger
sted. 1870
s:o2 a. m.-Through car for Waterbury, WATERFOWL
Ltch1eld, Winsted.
o'1o p. m.-Connecting at Ansonia with passenger
train for Waterbury and WATERFOWL.
o:4o p m.-Ihrough car for Waterbury WATERFOWL,
Litchheld, Winsted -
1:95 p m:-Gonnecting at Ansonia for Waterbury,
FOX NEW HAfEN-Trains leave Winsted: 5:iS
a. IA, 1;20 p N. with through car aud at 4:88 B. m
- Trains LEAVE WATERBgRY-At $50 a. M
through car, $50 p. m. r -'''
Bridgeport Dec IL 1895 SNfs
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-31
H0rsfOrd's Acid PhOsph ate
I'm Nervous Irr1sability.
Weak Lungs Made Strong.

DIR. B. B. Grover, Rushferd, N. Y, says:
81 have prescribed it for nervous irritability
with marked results" ja31 eoa3tw1t
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-31
JUSTICE GALLAGHER HOLDS COURT.

A. Huntley, tried Saturday forenoon before
Justice John G. Gallagher, Judgment was
rendered for the plaintiff to recover 1924
damages and $11.s4 costs. The claim was
for digging cellar on James street, Fair
Haven. Edwin G. Dow for plaintiff and
James /. Hayes for defendant,
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-31

time and then them again. radical
have made the disease Of FITS, EPILEPSY FALLING
SICKNESS lfe-lsng study. Warrant remedy
che Because others failed
ot Row cure Send at once for treatise and
Free Bottle infalibe remedy Give Express
ONCE It cssts you nothing for trial and win
Wichita eagle., 1887-05-14
4 Fortune In Little Jugs.

"There are more ways of making liv-
ing in this world than most folks dream of"
said passenger from Ohio. Il know
young man down in our state who got poor
in the newspaper business, and looked
around for something else to do. He had
a capital Of - cents, and with this he be-
gan the manufacture OF jugs Yes, sir;
stone JUGS. At first he made them himself
On q little machine of his own construc-
ton. 1t was a rude affair, but did the bust
ness. y pecuiarity about his jugs-and
this was the life OF his scheme-waS their
size. Some of them were no bigger than a
good sized kernel of corn, and from that
up TO q hickory nut or a walnut. But
every jug, even the smallest, was perfectly
made, with handle, mouth and hollow, lust
like any other jug. 4 market for such
things? OF course he found q market He
sells to clothing dealers and other storeleep-
ers, who use them for advertising purposes
Out of these little toy jugs has grown a
big business. The young man, who is O
Yankee, has at Akron, in our state, fac
tory in which fifty hands are employed, and
he is making $50 gross of jugs a day. He
sells them at 60 cents gross and is get
ting rich--C6ioago Herald.
DsN -NpS LINZ VI omen CUSTOMERS
i hate women customers replied sales
woman IN dry goods store. She had been
asked plumply whether she preferred waiting
on men, and this was her plump answer.
"Why do you prefer menin
Because they know what they want, and
do not care to keep you standing an hour
while they tumble over and rumple CD the
goods on the counter. Why, only to-day /
was showing q lady black stockings. OF
course they were all the same size and Quail
ity, yet she dragged every pair out of that
box and then wanted TO see more. handed
down two more boxes just like this one, and
then she asked if we had any more l told
her no, and then she said l might wrap up
one pair for her The lady next me made
nine different saies to gentlemen while was
fooling with this one woman. am going to
try to get a place in hardware store, or
some place where women do not have to deal
with women "-Pittsburg Dispatch
Wichita eagle., 1887-05-14

As an illustration of the colossal liars"
of the west, Gen. McCook relates the fol
lowing: He was travelling among the Rocky
mountains and, straying enc morning from
the trail, stood for q moment entranced by
the magnificent landscape spread before
him, when lie was aroused from his medita-
ton by the footsteps of one of the guides
who had followed him lest he should lose
his way.
as not this magnificent, Bill?n ex-
claimed the general, anxious to share his
delight.
ats mighty purity, gineral," said the
guide, ''but l kin show you bigger sights
nor this Why, one time Kansas Jim and
me had been trampin' three days and
nights, and we came TO plain, and right
in the midst of it was forest all turned
to solid stunt
The general smiled and remarked: ~
have heard of petriiied trees before, Bill"
The guide expectorated without chang
ing comtenance, and continued, But that
warn't al, gineTal; that war Q buffalo on
that plain and he war pctrified Oh the clean
jump, and his hufs had kicked up a bit Of
sod, and I'm blamed eff that varn't petri-
fed in the air.
The gineral turned an amused counten-
ance on the rarrator and said why Bill,
the sod would have fallen to the ground BIZ
the force of gravity"
Without any hesitation Bill answered.
"Well, ginera!, the gravity was petrifed,
too!'-Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Wichita eagle., 1887-05-14
Central Africa's Trade Center.

There is at last little city in central At
RIGA. Kasongo has become the great center
for the ivory and slave trades. DR.. Lenz says
its houses are arranged in streets. About TO-
600 people inhabit the place. Here are fitted
out all the caravans that start for Lake Tan
ganyika with slaves and ivory. Here is the
distributing point for all the goods from Fan
zibar, which the Arabs scatter over the coun-
try among chiefs, who sell them ivory or
slaves, or who help them on their slave raids.
Caravans are continually coming and going.
Provisions are abundant and cheap. Many
OF the houses are large, and are very we'll
built with sun dried bricks The hills around
the town are covered with rice fields. The
Arabs have also introduced cattle since STAN
ley was there, ten years ago, and now large
herds flourish on the plains some distance
from the town-New York Sun.
Wichita eagle., 1887-05-14
The Steel Pen and the Quill.

The steel pen is an exceedingly modern in
yention. Any person past middle age can
remember when its use became general in
America. Before that time the quill pen was
universal, and to make or sharpen it for his
pupils was one of the chief tasks of the school
master. Many persons still employ this
archaic instrument, driving to madness all
who are within hearing of its more narrowing
sound. The utter inability Of the present
generation to listen to the scratching Of the
quill pen is one of the most startling evidences
of the increase Of nervous disorders among U.s.
The pretended preference for it is generally an
affectation
The name of the person who first used q
Quill pen has not been preserved, and the loss
has not been seriously felt. 1t was probably
some monk or Learned clerk" Of the middle
ages who found that it could usefully supple
ment the stylus with which he was illuminat-
ing a manuscript. The quill might have
easily been suggested by the bodkin made Of
the bone of bird or other animal transmitted
from the Romans to the medieval monks, or
by the sharpened reed, also used by the
Romans and still in use among the Arabs.
The Chinese and Japanese use a sort Of brush
in writing, and when well instructed write
rapidly and with artistic skill. Francisco
Chronicle
Wichita eagle., 1887-05-14
WISDOM FROM A BARBER.
Old Time Notions About Shaving Ex-
ploded-Bar ers Don't Make Money.

Old Time Notions About Shaving Ex-
ploded-Bar ers Don't Make Money.
Il wonder if there's any other ordinary,
every day business about which people have
such mistaken ideas as about this?'' said
a barber in one of the big down town build
incs the other day "F'or instance, there
isn't day passes that some young fellow
doesn't come here and give particular direc-
tons not to be shaved high on the face or
under his eyes. He thinks, you know, that
being shaved up there makes the hair grow,
and he is terrified by the idea of having
whisllers just under his eyelids. Nearly
everybody has the same notion. It's all
nonsense. 10 amount of shaving will
make the hair grow where it isn't growing
and leaving it alone won't prevent it grow
ing where it is going to grow. You might
shave the tip Of your nose every day Tor
wear, but that wouldn't start a hair on it.
If your beard is going to grow closa up
under your eyes it will grow there if you
never touch a razor to your face.
Il have known a good many bald men
who had an idea that having their heads
shaved would start the hair growing again.
OF course l didn't discourage that idea, but
knew that | might as well shave that iron
post there. Many young fellows believe
that frequent shaving viii make their mus
taches grow The fact is that shaving has
nothing to do with the growth of the hair,
anyway. II the hair is naturally thin, no
shaving viii make it thick, and if it is
thick, leaving it alone won't make it thin
ner. Then about hair cutting. Lots Of
men come in ard give out explicit instruc-
tons about how they want their hair cut.
The barber follows their directions, and
when he gets through they want to get up
and murder him because they don't look as
they thought they would. Now the barber
knows they will look like guys all the time,
but what can he do? He has had his in
structions and must follow them. The
proper way to do is to leave the matter to
the good taste OF the barber. He knows, if
he knows anything, just how a customers
hair will look the best, and he won't make
any mistake about it, either. lie won't
cut a young mans hair a la Pompadour
when it Gould make him look like n lunatic
at large, nor clip a man whose head has
depresSions you could put your foot into
But tho biggest delusion OF all is that there
is any money in the business. That young
man out there with the bootblack's stand
makes twice as much money as many bar
bers in New York. New York Mail and
Express.
Wichita eagle., 1887-05-14
.ai11 Eaa1e
in THE GARDEN.

Was It thou, Mignonette?
For while the south wind stills his low complaints
To bear the censor Of thy rich perfume,
Tread upon a terrace warm with bloom,
Flower stories of the Virgin and the saints.
read that Mary, passing through field,
Her heart oppressed with that mysterious gloom
Which ever falls on those whom heaven has
sealed
For glory's crown-and DOOM
STOPPED often In her meditative walk
To pluck some favored blossom from its stalk,
Eome happy flower, which bowed its beauteous
head
And summers odorous benediction shed.
But one poor fragile weed,
Nor beautiful, nor sweet,
Which she would never heed
But that it chung SO close about her feet,
With tender touch she gathered; to her breast
And to her lips the sighted foweret pressed,
Because SO frail, SO hopeless, loved the best.
Oh, then the pale weed strove
To whisper forth its rapture and its love;
And while it mutely trembled and adored,
Like praise Of spirit risen
From long and woful prison,
tide of fragrance from its heart was pouredi
Nor once in all the ages has it sighed
For beauty's coronal of brilliant hue.
Red of the rose, or violet's winsome blue;
BY that one kiss Of pity glorifed,
The gardens lowly, well-beloved flower.
miracle of sweetness from that hour
Mgnonette, was il thou?
Mrs. Frances E. Mace in TIarper's Magazine.
Wichita eagle., 1887-05-14

a gentleman in the book business holds the
opiaion that cheap literature and cheap pub
locations are on the decline. he thinks that
the country has been glrtted with the ten
Ind twenty cent books, and that the demand
for the next few years win be for higher
priced books There Is vast food Of novels
constantly going apon the markets in vol
umes that sell at 81 and $L50 The editions
of such books by the ordinary writers do not
exceed 500 or 1000 copies each. II the lat
ter number is reached it IS considered largo
sale. This does not refer 10 writers Ike
Howells, but to many Of the story writers for
the magazines. They get 6rst Of all faa
price for their productions from the maya
Ines in which they are Published Whateva
they can make by putting them out In book
form IS considered - elsar pro6t-New York
Tribune
Wichita eagle., 1887-05-14

Il think" continued the railroad man, re-
flectively, "the meanest man I ever met in
the matter of passes was member Of con-
gress. All one winter he had bored US for
passes upon one pretext and another. One
day he wrote us to send him a pass for HIM
self from Pittsburg to Washington and an
other for his son from Pittsburg to Balti-
more The lad, he explained, was going there
to school. 1t appears that he subsequently
changed his mind, and kept the youngster at
Washington with him. He wrote us this in
formation, in fact, and inclosed in the letter
the boys pass and asked us to send him in
money the fare from Washington to Balti-
more. He explained that the pass entitled
him to the ride, but that he would take the
money instead 1t was the coolest PROPOSE
ton had ever heard. Washington Letter.
Wichita eagle., 1887-05-14
Manufacture Of Paper Bottles.

Paper bottles, capable Of fully withstand
ing the effect of alcoholic fluids, and unbreak-
able, are manufactured in the United States.
Paper is first made from ten parts rag, fifty
parts wood and forty parts straw stock
Both sides of the sheet are covered with q
mixture of defibrinated blood and powdered
lime Ten thicknesses of this material arc
placed one on another, and they are then
pressed in q hot metal mold until they as
sumo the form Of half bottle The two
halves are then united under the influence Of
heat and pressure into perfect bottle-Bos-
ton Budget
Wichita eagle., 1887-05-14
n Lucky mistake.

Talking about druggists mistakes, !" said o
druggist, ''rn tell you funny mistake
made about three years ago. A young Ger
man came into the store one morning and
said he wanted fifty cents worth of arsenic
to feed to some rats. I sold him what sup
posed was the poison, and would have thought
no more of the sale il the fellow had not come
round the next day and berated me for SELL
ing him quinine for arsenic. I learned later
that the German, who had become respondent
over some money matters, bought the
arsenic with tho intention of committing
suicide He took the quiniRe to his lodgings,
put on his grave clothes, shaved himself with
a dull razor, and then lay down upon the bed
with a teaspoonful Of the alkaloid in his stom-
arb When he woke up the next morning
ana found himself alive he came to the store
and relieved himself of his bile Three weeks
later he got good Job in downtown cloth
ing house, and is now earning good salary.
He comes around about once month to tell
me that some Of the mistakes druggists MAKE
are not so bad, after all"-Chicago Herald
Wichita eagle., 1887-05-14
IN THE HEART or AFRICA.
~ ohammedanfsm In Central Soudan-Th<
People Not Unwashed Barbarfans.

~ oham mechanism in Central S0udan@Tho
People Not Unwashed Barbarians.
When reached Central Soudan the sights
and scenes I there witnessed burst upon me
like a revelation. found myself in the heart
Of Africa, among undoubted negroes, but
how different from the unwashed, unclad
tarbarians it had hitherto been my lot to
meet in nv travels in Africal could hardly
believe l was not dreaming when looked
around me and found large, well built cities,
many of them containing 10, 900 to Sc, 600 in
habitants. The people themselves, pict-
uresquely and ANONYMOUSLY dressed, moved
about with that self possessed, sober dignity
which bespeaks the man who has a proper re-
spect for himself saw ON all sides the signs
of an industrious community, differentiated
into numerous crafts, evidence sufficient TO
show how far advanced they were on the
road to civilization l heard the rattle, the
tinkle and the musical clang OF workers In
| iron, in brass and in copper. l could see
cloth being made in one place, and dyed OF
sewn into gowns or other articles OF dress In
other places.
In the markets, crowded with eager thou
sands, could see how varied were the wants
of these negro people, how manifold the pro-
auctions of their industry and how keen their
| business instincts. Almost more remarkable
than anything else, no native beer or spirits,
no European gin and rum, found place in
| their markets. Clearly there were no buyers,
and therefore no sellers. Outside the towns,
again, no forest covered the land; the density
of the population and its numerous require
ments had made the virgin forest thing OF
| the past, and its place was taken by various
cereals, by cotton and indigo and other vege-
table productions which minister to the inner
and outer man.
What could have produced this great
change? for that a change had occurred
could not be doubted. Certainly contact
with Europeans had had nothing to do with
it. The character of the industries, the style
of art, indicated certain amount of Moor
ish influence, giving them the direction which
they had assumed How had the first great
steps been takens No Moors or Arabs were
| to be seen among the people. No such races
held the reins of government, and by their
powerful influence caused the introduction OF
new arts and industries. Evidently, what
ever had been done had been done through
the free aspirations of the negroes toward
higher things was left long in ignorance
of the agency which had thus transformed
numerous tribes of savages into semi-civiized
nations, ruled by powerful sultans. who ad-
ministered justice Of q high order for
Africa and rendered life and property safe.
That agency was almost exclusively Moham'
mechanism Thomson in Contempor
ary Review.
Wichita eagle., 1887-05-14
Succi, the Italian faster, took in over &C, 900
francs in one day recently.
Poisonous Machine Oil.

Take care how you let any machine oil o.
lubricator come In contact with a cut or
scratch on your hand or arm, as serious blood
poisoning may result In the manufacture
of some Of these machine oils fat from dis
eased and decomposed animals is used. An
physicians know how poisonous such matter
Is. The only safeguard is not to let any spo:
where the skin is broken be touched by any
machine oil or lubricator.